Microsoft announced a bunch of new in-house AI models at Build 2026, including a new “flagship” model: MAI-Thinking-1. It’s an ambitious step into model development for Microsoft, which introduced its initial in-house models last year — before then, it had relied on OpenAI’s models. …
… Gemini is expected to be front and center once again at this year’s developer conference, with Google potentially introducing new versions of AI models and more agentic AI features. …
… MAI-Thinking-1 offers 35 billion active parameters and a 128K context window that Microsoft says is designed for “complex multi-step instructions, long-context reasoning and code generation.” It also announced updates across its models focused on image, voice, and code generation, as well as transc… …
… In an announcement on Tuesday, the Commerce Department’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation CAISI says it will work with the AI companies to perform “pre-deployment evaluations and targeted research to better assess frontier AI capabilities.” CAISI, which started evaluating models from OpenAI a… …
… Gemini 3.5 Flash is the model behind the new Gemini Spark AI agent for consumers, which was also announced today. …
The day after opening up its relationship with Microsoft and Azure, OpenAI announced an expanded deal with Amazon that brings its latest AI models, Codex, and other tools to AWS. …
Thinking Machines, the AI company founded by former OpenAI CTO Mira Murati, announced Monday that it’s working on something called “interaction models.” The idea behind interaction models, according to Thinking Machines, is that they will let people “collaborate with AI the way we naturally collabo… …
… Like Glasswing, Daybreak isn’t built on just one AI model — OpenAI says “Daybreak brings together the most capable OpenAI models, Codex, and our security partners.” Daybreak also involves specialized cyber models, including GPT-5.5 with Trusted Access for Cyber and GPT-5.5-Cyber, which began rollin… …
Google is announcing a major new family of generative AI models that it calls Gemini Omni. The first Omni Model, Omni Flash, can generate AI videos using an assortment of different inputs: text, photos, videos, and audio. …
… This builds upon deals with OpenAI and xAI, which have already reached agreements with the Pentagon for the “lawful” use of their AI systems. …